Asymptomatic recurrent cerebral ischaemic lesions on diffusion-weighted imaging in the subacute and chronic phase after transient ischaemic attack or minor ischaemic stroke

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 133-135

  Mazzucco, S ^a   Redgrave, J N ^a   Schulz, U G ^a   Flossmann, E ^a   Rothwell, P M ^a  

^a RADCLIFFE INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LOG RANK TEST; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; STROKE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34347382994     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000103614     Document Type: Article

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